Long staying rarities (1 Viewer)

[Dog]

Forsters Tern, Holyhead in the mid 80's, Oriental Pratincole, Norfolk in 93, breeding B W Stilts, Holme & nobody has mentioned this years Rufous Turtle Dove.

Mike.

 

[Runcorn Birder]

How about Ovenbird in Herefordshire. Two to three months late 2001/early 2002.

Painful....

 

[bernie b]

British Blocker

Double-crested Cormorant,Billingham 1989,hung around a few month :t:

 

[Dog]

Double-crested Cormorant,Billingham 1989,hung around a few month :t:

& that G W Warbler plus that suppressed Yelowthroat.

Mike.

 

[Jan-Paul Charteris]

Pallas's Sandgrouse, though I doubt anyone here would have seen the stayers. Can't be many examples of crippling vagrants that have stayed and bred (not counting Albert ogling Gannets here)

 

[daviddixon]

Pied billed Grebe at Stithians Reservoir (1994?) stayed around long enough to hook up with a Little Grebe and produce three young

 

[Jhanlon]

James...The Least tern at Rye Harbour was accepted but only as a subspecies of Little Tern. The BOURC-TSC being, I think, isolated in their view, among taxonomic authorities, as not accepting antillarum as a species.

cheers Bob, my brain must be failing me. I had it in my head that the west African race of little tern hadn't been ruled out, but can't say I'm always on top of these things.

Wonder how long the house crow will stay? I presume until it dies, unless it boards another boat!

 

[VATH 82]

cheers Bob, my brain must be failing me. I had it in my head that the west African race of little tern hadn't been ruled out, but can't say I'm always on top of these things.

Wonder how long the house crow will stay? I presume until it dies, unless it boards another boat!

James...You were right that the possibility of west African race of Little Tern had held the record up.This was dismissed after recordings of the west African subspecies had been obtained.On the House Crow, this could be an
extreme stayer.

 

[Jan-Paul Charteris]

Baird's Sandpiper at Staines years ago stayed a while a believe...?

And I don't think the North Wales Black Scoter has been mentioned yet as a returner?

Edit...Or indeed the now partially sighted from 'torching' Scops in Oxfordshire :t:

 

[Captain_of_Crunch]

Is the Forster's tern in Galway the same one every year?

Gareth

As far as is possible to tell, it is. Presumably it is the same bird seen every few months at Tacumshin (June/July) and Gormanstown (Meath/late summer-autumn). I think its been around since 2005 or 2006.

 

[Helsinki Birder]

As far as is possible to tell, it is. Presumably it is the same bird seen every few months at Tacumshin (June/July) and Gormanstown (Meath/late summer-autumn). I think its been around since 2005 or 2006.

It may not be. There has to have been at least 2 birds at some point. In January 2008 there was one in Wexford and one in Galway on the same date.

Owen

 

[woodhornbirder]

`Larry the Laugher, Newcastle General Hospital. A returner`

my first serious twitch) I was 13.

I would say Percy the pelican in the 70s, but thats not accepted, for reasons that dont make sense imo.

 

[Edward]

In Iceland we have had a drake Steller's Eider in the same location since 1998 and a female in another location since 2002. If only we could introduce them.

 

[Mike Cross]

In Iceland we have had a drake Steller's Eider in the same location since 1998 and a female in another location since 2002. If only we could introduce them.

The Radipole Hooded Merganser (lights blue paper and retires)

 

[northernloon]

Collared Dove

 

[JWN Andrewes]

I saw a Yellow-billed Cuckoo at St Levan in Cornwall a few years back on its second day. Everything's relative!

James

 

[Jane Turner]

Not so rare, but out-stripping even Sammy is the Iceland Gull in Ayrshire - 21 years now and still counting....

Methusela the New Brighton Iceland Gull topped that... but I'll have to go out and work out just how many.

edit: 21 years,but started as a 4th winter

 

[snowcap]

Methusela the New Brighton Iceland Gull topped that... but I'll have to go out and work out just how many.

edit: 21 years,but started as a 4th winter

Indeed Jane, first seen I believe in 1955 at New Brighton shore, then annually( with occasional visits over the river to Seaforth) until its last sighting at Seaforth on 4th May 1985.

 

[markgrubb]

Though for only 16 days the Paddyfield warbler that was very easily seen at Torness i Lothian in 2005 was pretty good value

 

[luke01903]

Has anybody mentioned the FORSTER'S TERN in county Galway and the Northen Harrier in County Wexford? I presume its the same one.